Survivor

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Survivor is a darkly satirical novel by Chuck Palahniuk that follows the last surviving member of a death cult as he recounts his life story while hijacking a doomed airplane.

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Survivor canonical 3

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instanceOf American novel ⓘ
novel ⓘ
satirical novel ⓘ
author Chuck Palahniuk ⓘ
centralTheme celebrity culture ⓘ
consumerism ⓘ
fatalism ⓘ
identity ⓘ
media exploitation ⓘ
religious cults ⓘ
character Adam Branson ⓘ
Fertility Hollis ⓘ
The Creedish Church ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United States ⓘ
coverArtist Rodrigo Corral ⓘ
followedBy Choke ⓘ
genre dark comedy ⓘ
satire ⓘ
transgressive fiction ⓘ
hasISBN 9780393039798 ⓘ
hasPageCount 289 ⓘ
hasTagline A novel by the author of Fight Club ⓘ
hasTargetAudience adult readers ⓘ
literaryMovement postmodern literature ⓘ
mainCharacter Tender Branson ⓘ
marketedAs fiction ⓘ
mediaType print ⓘ
narrativeFrame confession recorded on an airplane flight recorder ⓘ
narrativePerspective first-person ⓘ
notableFeature chapters are numbered in reverse, counting down to the plane crash ⓘ
originalLanguage English ⓘ
plotSummary The novel follows Tender Branson, the last surviving member of a death cult, as he recounts his life story while hijacking a doomed airplane. ⓘ
precededBy Invisible Monsters ⓘ
protagonist Tender Branson ⓘ
publicationDate 1999 ⓘ
publisher W. W. Norton & Company ⓘ
setting United States ⓘ
commercial airplane ⓘ
structure told in reverse chapter order ⓘ
subjectMatter commercialization of religion ⓘ
mass suicide of a religious cult ⓘ
self-help culture ⓘ
timePeriodOfSetting late 20th century ⓘ
tone darkly satirical ⓘ

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Chuck Palahniuk → notableWork → Survivor ⓘ
The Story of Beauty → basedOn → Survivor ⓘ
James McTeigue → directed → Survivor ⓘ